3rd Party Dispatch Services

Why pay someone to sit and look at a load board, we find all our own loads, and our phone rings off the hook all day long. we also do all our own paper work, if you keep good records and keep reciepts straight its not that hard. We also do our Ifta also.

 

The significant difference between you and Nkronick is the tiny very little word WE !!!
A horse pulls with the strength of one horse.
Two horses pull with the strength of SEVEN horses !!!
I am fortunate that I have someone at home taking care of the mountain of paper work needed, otherwise I would be very happy to pay a third party. I pay my girl friend 10% but the only thing I do is drive. Mind you that is money that I would put into the household anyway. She knows of my whereabouts and being part of the business she makes sure we get some nice quality loads.
For me is a win win situation. On my wish list is to learn to do our own IFTA.

 

Wife and i are working towards the same.

I've looked into 3rd parties. Just can't justify them.

 

$50,000+ increase in net profit



Guaranteed

 

but there are a few times we are not together, so i will look for loads when i stop to eat, fuel and rest.

 

IFTA returns are not that complicated if you are tracking the miles and fuel anyway. Do you not understand the actual form or how to track the required information? I found that bulk fuel is causes the most problems. If you are not dealing with that issue, the requirements are fairly straight forward. I always hated finding drivers tracking the miles and fuel only to hand a spreadsheet to someone else that plugged in the numbers and charged an arm and a leg for 15 minutes of work passed off to a secratary.

 

You'll never make the money that your capable of if you let someone else book all of your loads....

The only one that works harder than the trucker is?

Nobody.

Finding, negotiating, and booking your own loads is a lot of work sometimes, but it is necessary if you want to make the real money.

Dispatch services will try and tell you that a buck fifty is great money....

No, it is not.

 

do the math. a dispatch service only has $5-$10 dollars to gain or lose on a load that will gain or lose you hundreds. Unless you find one willing to be paid a percentage on loads over $2/mile or something of that nature, they simply don't have proper motivation to find loads that make you money.

Example, if a dispatch service is being paid 5% of gross do they have motive to book you a $2.50/mile load when it is easy to book a $2/mile load ? on 500 miles the difference to them is only $12.50. However, with my expenses running around $1.20, the difference to me is $250 net profit. Why would I want to let someone with $12.50 to gain or lose make decisions which gain or lose me $250 ?

Or would it even be rational for me to expect this person to fight for those better loads ? Sure, some days they come easy. but some days you really have to fight for that extra 0.25/mile, and how does someone with only a few shillings to gain make that determination ? Dispatch services are going to grab you the first slightly above average load they can find and call it a day. There's no way they will decide to dig in their heels and find the best rate possible, they just can't afford too.